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Henry seemed particularly downhearted after the vet on Friday as they bandaged his leg heavily. He stopped eating and we had to return to the vet on Saturday. Thankfully they gave him a less intrusive bandage and he’s been a…

We were at the vet yesterday with Henry (and Queenie) and we saw a little french bulldog – with a very flat and squishy face, stumpy legs and who made a little piggy snuffling sound. If you put it in…

The white paint is out again to hide some of the effects of smoke from a winter with fire. I’d hoped I could just paint the spots where necessary, but removing the pictures off the wall showed just how much…

Queenie seems to understand how things work. The weather forecast is looking better so Sam will be the first one to enjoy his spring time haircut.

Instead of round pupils, Queenie has very definite star shaped pupils. Her eyes are quite small, light blue with these little stars inside – it’s very distinctive. This is due to having two M genes and she is what is…

She’s about three months old now and according to a calculation we found online, she will perhaps be about 25kg when full grown, which is what we’d been thinking. She seems quite self-confident and Rosie has been  wanting her to…

We’re going to collect Queeny today. We are meeting her foster family half way between their house and ours, at Salamanca. We’re both looking forward to bringing her home and introducing her to our little gang. We’ve enjoyed introducing all…

We took Henry back to the vet and while there’s no doubt that he’s pretty poorly, he seems a very more spritely dog than he was this time last week. He is much more like his old self, and while…

Henry is pretty poorly. I had thought that he had got old over the last few weeks and Ian said that Henry had stopped eating his tea last week. As Henry has never been a big eater we weren’t unduly…

I popped into the workshop to get something for Kate and was greeted by this sight. Mushrooms for tea then!